Commission of Noah Cooke, Jr., as chaplain in the Continental Army, signed by John Hancock, 1776 January 1

Commission of Noah Cooke, Jr., as chaplain in the Continental Army, signed by John Hancock, 1 January 1776.

John Warren's copy of votes from a meeting of the Boston Medical Society, 1784 May 3

This document lists the eleven votes cast at a meeting of the Boston Medical Society on May 3, 1784. It was authorized as a "true coppy" by Thomas Kast, the Secretary of the Society. The following members of the Society were present at the meeting, all of them doctors: James Pecker, James Lloyd, Joseph Gardner, Samuel Danforth, Isaac Rand, Jr., Charles Jarvis, Thomas Kast, Benjamin Curtis, Thomas Welsh, Nathaniel Walker Appleton, and doctors whose last names were Adams, Townsend, Eustis, Homans, and Whitwell. The document indicates that a meeting had been held the previous evening, as well (May 2, 1784), at which the topics on which votes were taken had been discussed. The votes, eleven in total, were all related to the doctors' concerns about John Warren and his involvement with the emerging medical school (now Harvard Medical School), that school's relation to almshouses, the medical care of the poor, and other related matters. The tone and content of these votes reveals anger on the part of the members of the Boston Medical Society towards Warren. This anger appears to have stemmed from the perceived threat of Warren to their own practices, exacerbated by a vote of the Harvard Corporation on April 19, 1784. This vote authorized Warren to apply to the Overseers of the Poor for the town of Boston, requesting that students in the newly-established Harvard medical program, where Warren was Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, be allowed to visit the hospital of the almshouse with their professors for the purpose of clinical instruction. Although Warren believed that the students would learn far more from these visits, in regards to surgical experience, than they could possibly learn in Cambridge, the proposal provoked great distrust from the members of the Boston Medical Society, who accused Warren of an "attempt to direct the public medical business from its usual channels" for his own financial and professional gain.

Relation de la conversion de Mr. Jean Thayer: autrefois ministre protestant à Boston, en l'Amérique Septentrionale, converti à la religion catholique à Rome, le 25 de mai 1783 et prêtre depuis la Trinité 1787 / manuscript, [after 1788]

écrite par lui-même en 1788 :

The life of Captain John Smith, the founder of Virginia.

Mode of access: Internet.

The annual address delivered before the Diagnothian and Goethean Literary Societies of Marshall College, Mercersburg, Pa., on the connection between government, and science and literature ... September 8, 1846.

Mode of access: Internet.

Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, esq., F. R. S., secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II and James II, comprising his diary from 1659 to 1669, deciphered by the Rev. John Smith ... from the original short-hand ms. in the Pepysian library, and a selection from his private correspondence. Edited by Richard Lord Braybrooke.

Mode of access: Internet.

Catalogue of library sets : angling literature, art and illustrated books, including the private library of John F. Thompson, of Woodhaven, Long Island, to be sold ... January 19th, 1920 ...

484 items; sale conducted by Thomas E. Kirby.

The poems of John G.C. Brainard: a new and authentic collection, with an original memoir of his life.

Memoir by Royal Robbins.

The critical period of American history, 1783-1789.

Bibliography: p. [351]-356.

The life and letters of John Paul Jones,

"Sources of information": v. 2, p. 485-490.

A monograph on the Rev. Israel Evans, A.M., chaplain in the American army during the entire revolutionary war, 1775-1783, the second settled minister of Concord, New Hampshire 1789-1797,

Mode of access: Internet.

A monograph of the Rev. Israel Evans, A.M., chaplain in the American army during the entire Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 : the second settled minister of Concord, New Hampshire, 1789-1797 : delivered at the sixtieth annual meeting of the Concord Congregational Union, held with the church at Penacook, N.H., Thursday, October 30, 1902 /

Reprinted from the Granite monthly, Nov. 1902, v. 23, no. 5.

Memoirs of a Maryland volunteer. War with Mexico, in the years 1846-7-8.

Appendix:-- A. List of the officers of the First battalion of Baltimore and Washington volunteers.--B. List of officers of the District of Columbia and Maryland regiment of volunteers.--C. Letter from Colonel George W. Hughes [etc.]--D. Treaty between the United States and Mexico.

The papal conquest: Italy's warning--"Wake up, John Bull!"

Mode of access: Internet.

The British in Boston, being the diary of Lieutenant John Barker of the King's own regiment from November 15, 1774 to May 31, 1776;

"Selections from this diary were first published under the title of ʻA British officer in Boston in 1775̓, in the Atlantic monthly for April and May, 1877. The identity of the writer was undetermined."--Pref.